The fruit of a civil society initiative nurtured over two decades, the Museu Judaico de São Paulo (MUJ) opens its doors with a view to cultivating the different expressions, histories, memories, traditions and values of Jewish culture, in dialogue with the Brazilian context, the present and the aspirations of its different publics.

Backed by a cultural and participative program that intertwines the Jewish experience with Brazilian culture and contemporary art, the MUJ was born out of a commitment to coexistence between various social groups and identities, to fight intolerance and prejudice, with education and intergenerational transmission, values that are both universal and Jewish.

Housed in a building designated as a municipal heritage site and guardian of the largest Jewish collection in Brazil, created entirely from donations, the MUJ considers memory a living phenomena, a source of resistance and survival, in constant transformation.

May this house be a temple of inspiration and a forum for debate, a place of meeting between identity and otherness, a space that connects histories and intertwines a past, a present and a future shared collectively.